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Post by burdocksan on May 6, 2014 7:57:03 GMT -6
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Post by oldschoolfan on May 6, 2014 9:02:08 GMT -6
LOL! That's how I feel now! By the way is it safe if I buy a Sheron or Oozaru from Japan? Am I correct to think that auctions selling the items should be genuine if they're from Japan?
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Post by burdocksan on May 6, 2014 9:09:46 GMT -6
LOL! That's how I feel now! By the way is it safe if I buy a Shenron or Oozaru from Japan? Am I correct to think that auctions selling the items should be genuine if they're from Japan? Yep. By all means. Initially, even I was skeptical about getting stuff from there but as Capsule x Nike mentioned, the Japs themselves look down on buying and selling bootlegs/fakes. So that is good news for us. Caveat Emptor anyways!
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 10:17:52 GMT -6
I think there is a certain taste if a seller is legit, there are many legit Hong Kong based stores, since many of the Japanese market merch are getting released there as well. - though they are greatly outnumbered by the KO stock sellers and the chinese KO sellers. I agree with you that you are usually right to assume that if an item come from Japan,it is more than likely to be authentic, that is due to the fact that getting KO's in Japan would be more difficult than getting legit homeland merchandise. But that doesn't mean that a Japanese seller can't still be a scammer, buying a cheap KO of an expensive item that was heavily bootlegged; like the Proovy Father and son Kamehameha or the Medicos Goku - So buying from Ebay will always a envolve a certain risk, but it is still unlikely. You are safe though buying from official Japanese stores.
I don't think that there is a bootleg of the 09 Kuji shenron out there, if there was, I don't think that the cheap usual bootleggers factories could pull off a convincing imitation of it anyway. For the 08 Kuji Oozaru,the bootleg that caps mentioned is not common, something that is under the radar atm. you shouldn't worry about those two. I'd like to see the Oozaru bootleg too, I have never heard of it until caps mention it the other day.
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Post by oldschoolfan on May 15, 2014 9:25:40 GMT -6
Guys, my apologies for the late reply (busy at work) but I finally picked up this Sheron and I'm so pleased with it! I know its not as 'complete' as the earlier one.
However, I really prefer this version as it looks more menacing and I really dislike the black stands on first release. The 'special' effects gives it a more 'mythically' look too!
My next target will be the Oozaru but I need to let my wallet recover...
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Post by burdocksan on Jul 13, 2015 4:25:24 GMT -6
Why is the link not working? I kinda forgot how to differentiate between the bootleg and the real one. The orange box version I mean.
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Post by Seal on Jun 17, 2017 23:23:15 GMT -6
Bringing back a dead thread because I would like to see any pictures anyone has of the chinese bootleg of this shenron. I tried to order an official shenron from mandarake but the shipping was RIDICULOUS so now im considering the fake market. I want the figure for a custom piece im doing so i guess it being a bootleg wont matter much.
Anyone got any pics? thank yall
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